Can I have some help on Fish please?
May 19th 2013, 3:28 am
#31
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Re: Can I have some help on Fish please?
OK. One for Oakvillian I think. Or possibly someone equally erudite such as Magnumpi.
It's about fish.
I was watching an old episode of Pie in the Sky on PBS on hour ago and Inspector Crabbe said of a supplier to his restaurant, "His fish is outstanding".
Now It sounds perfectly correct to me and I know that "fish" and "fishes" are both valid plurals of "fish", but shouldn't it have been "are" and if so why not?
I'm assuming Pie in the Sky bought more than one.
Bored, moi?
It's about fish.
I was watching an old episode of Pie in the Sky on PBS on hour ago and Inspector Crabbe said of a supplier to his restaurant, "His fish is outstanding".
Now It sounds perfectly correct to me and I know that "fish" and "fishes" are both valid plurals of "fish", but shouldn't it have been "are" and if so why not?
I'm assuming Pie in the Sky bought more than one.
Bored, moi?
I would have thought it should be "are" as well.
May 19th 2013, 12:57 pm
#32
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Location: Regina Saskatchewan
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Re: Can I have some help on Fish please?
Alan2005 has it right, it's presented correctly. In the winter we catch burbot, (lota lota) through the ice and they're very good, (they're descended from salt water cod, having become landlocked when the continents split apart).
Last edited by caretaker; May 19th 2013 at 1:04 pm.
